All in the Family
Sylvia Lawson, 3 December 1992
Letters to Sartre
by Simone de Beauvoir and Quintin Hoare.
Radius, 531 pp., £20, December 1991,0 09 174774 0 Show More
by Simone de Beauvoir and Quintin Hoare.
Radius, 531 pp., £20, December 1991,
Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvior, 1926-1939
edited by Simone de Beauvior, translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee.
Hamish Hamilton, 448 pp., £20, November 1992,9780241133361 Show More
edited by Simone de Beauvior, translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee.
Hamish Hamilton, 448 pp., £20, November 1992,
“... On these two sacred monsters, the tally of evidence is still incomplete: there’s another volume of the translation of Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres to come, and Quintin Hoare has translated only two-thirds of the Lettres à Sartre. But you could already tabulate the chronologies into a glorious, full-colour-coded spreadsheet jigsaw, mapping the stories from the Sartre biographies (Annie Cohen-Solal, John Gerassi, Ronald Hayman) over those from the Beauvoir biographies (Deirdre Bair – very much the best; Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier, Margaret Crosland ... ”
